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particularizes

particularizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of particularize.

Meaning of particularize

Verb

particularize (third-person singular simple present particularizes, present participle particularizing, simple past and past participle particularized)

  1. (transitive) To make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc.; to single out.
    Synonyms:
    set apart
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To be specific about (individual instances); to go into detail (about), to specify.
    • 'Tis hard I confesse, yet I have disposed of them as I could, and will descend to particularize them according to their species.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section...
    Synonyms:
    clarify
  3. (intransitive) To differentiate, make distinct from others.
    Synonyms:
    distinguish

Questions about particularizes

What is particularizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Particularizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of particularize.

Words near particularizes in the dictionary

  1. particularizations
  2. particularize
  3. particularized
  4. particularizer
  5. particularizers
  6. particularizes
  7. particularizing
  8. particularizingly
  9. particularly
  10. particularment
  11. particularments

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